The PC rumor first popped up on NeoGAF today. This afternoon, a GAF poster named benny_a wrote that a friend at Activision had told him that Destiny’s much-anticipated sequel will indeed be on PC. The publisher informed employees about the news during an internal presentation today, according to benny_a. He added another interesting tidbit: that the Activision-owned studio Vicarious Visions is also helping out on Destiny 2. Although that isn’t public knowledge, I had heard the same thing a few weeks ago, which adds credence to benny_a’s report.

Earlier this year, I’d also heard from a person familiar with Bungie’s plans that Destiny 2, which is currently slated for a late 2017 release, will be on PC. This isn’t a shocker. Releasing Destiny’s sequel on PC will give Bungie access to a giant new potential audience, one that wasn’t around for the first game. Ditching last-gen consoles, which Bungie has already done for the recently released Rise of Iron expansion, ensures that they no longer have to worry about antiquated memory restrictions.

Twitter user @SenSnowy recently posted a photo of a receipt of sale for a pre-order for a Limited Edition of Destiny 2 for the PC, pre-ordered from GameStop Germany (via Reddit). The pricing for the same is about €110, which translates to about roughly $120. The same person has also stated that there may also be a separate Collector’s Edition.

We’ll find out for sure when the official announcement comes, of course, but this seems authentic.

The original Destiny was so so bad. Like, really god awful. It had solid combat but literally lacked everything else that could make it a remotely good game.

I'm not sure exactly how much they salvaged it with the expansions but I did hear that it had improved quite a lot.

I'd still wait this one out for a bit before jumping in. I read a while back that the sequel had encountered some production issues during development in a similar manner to the first, so there's a risk of them making the same mistakes. Hopefully they've taken on board enough criticisms from the original though.

I never played the original and had a fair amount of fun with Taken King, but I still think it was an average game elevated slightly by great shooting mechanics.

It will be interesting to see how this sequel is received. I think part of the reason Taken King got so much praise is because of the state Destiny was in so in comparison it looked great. I'm still not sure that Bungie know how to make this concept work properly.

Pre-ordered a copy for my son and one for myself. Is anyone else going to bite then? I know the original release was a botched up mess but according to my son at least they did make up for it a lot in the later expansions finally resembling something the game it should have been all along.

I'm willing to give it a shot on PC simply because there's nothing quite like it on the platform. The closest thing I can think of is perhaps Warframe?